Post by Bozur on Jan 29, 2010 0:52:09 GMT -5
Turkey, and the Fictitious Europe of the Irreverent German Minister Markus Söder
If finally the Turks decide to adhere to the European Union, Turkey will become a member state o the real and existent European Union. The 27-member super-state consists in a real challenge of our times, and represents the latest phase of a real historical Europe. This true Europe is contradicted by the German Minister Markus Söder’s fictitious Europe.
This historically inexistent and irrelevant ‘Europe’ of Mr. Söder is the result of the widely diffused in Europe false History – an academic fabrication compiled originally by the colonial Anglo-French academia. Their interests in this regard involved the promotion of a great number of misconceptions and aberrations that would be necessary to keep average Europeans unaware of Europe’s true History and Identity; this nefarious situation is a prerequisite for the most efficient implementation of the targets of the Apostate Free Masonic Lodge that controls almost totally the Classicist and Orientalist academia of France and England, and the ruling Anglo-French elite.
These misconceptions were at the origin of the inconsistent and ludicrous contents of Mr. Markus Söder’s interview in which the historically ignorant Bavarian politician asserted that for cultural reasons Turkey will never become EU member state, and suggested the termination of the ongoing negotiations (http://www.welt.de/politik/article1531451/Die_Tuerkei_wird_nicht_Mitglied_der_EU.html).
We refuted extensively these misconceptions and opposed the fictitious Europe of Mr. Markus Söder and other ignorant politicians in five earlier articles, namely ‘Markus Söder, Germany, Turkey, Europe, and the Apostate Free Masonic, Anglo-French Elite’ (http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Markus-Soder--Germany--Turkey--Europe--and-the-Apostate-Free-Masonic--Anglo-French-Elite/70811); ‘Turkey as Birthplace of the European Identity, Mr. Markus Soeder's Historical Ignorance’ (http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Turkey-as-Birthplace-of-the-European-Identity--and-Mr--Markus-Soeder-s-Historical-Ignorance/71006); ‘Markus Soeder, Europe, Orient, and the Obsolete Colonial History Model’ (http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Markus-Soeder--Europe--Orient--and-the-Obsolete-Colonial-History-Model/71046); ‘Minister Markus Soeder, and the Falsehood taught as History in Europe’ (http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Minister-Markus-Soeder--and-the-Falsehood-taught-as-History-in-Europe/71330); ‘Markus Soeder, Turkey, and the Search for European Identity’ (http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/Markus-Soeder--Turkey--and-the-Search-for-European-Identity/71441).
We specified that these misconceptions make the Europeans ignore following basic historical truths:
1. Islam, Turkey, and the Ottoman Civilization are inherent part of the European Culture and History.
2. The European Identity was mainly formed on today’s Turkish territory.
3. Europe was civilized because of the expansion of the Ancient Oriental cultures.
4. Modern European preconceived theories and approaches (Greco-Romano-centrism) were composed in times of limited knowledge and scarce sources, and were politically motivated (as form of anti-clericalism).
5. The aforementioned erroneous approaches were not rejected (as they should) after the discoveries of the Orientalists, which were also based on erratic, preconceived, colonial approaches and attitudes.
6. Not only Oriental civilizations’ traits and global impact have been kept unknown to average people but the Classical Greek and Roman civilizations have been presented gravely deformed and viciously distorted.
7. Through the above mentioned historical forgery, nefarious patterns, models and prototypes are chosen from the ill-perceived, and largely imaginative Classical World of the modern, racist, European Greco-Romano-centric academia and politicians, and then projected among the average Europeans with disastrous results.
In the present article, we recapitulate, illuminating more particularly several points of European History, Culture and Identity; as a matter of fact, Markus Söder’s fictitious Europe has already been a matter of debate over the past few years. It is absolutely deplorable to see otherwise ignorant politicians assert supposedly historical conclusions only to serve their political agenda.
European Identity – ‘A Common Whole’: who is ‘in’, and who is ‘out’?
At this point, we could refer to an earlier speech of the former French president Giscard d’ Estaing:
‘Europeans need to strengthen their sense of identity. "European patriotism" can only begin to exist when European citizens become conscious of belonging to a common whole.
The European Convention sought to better define the basic foundation of this common whole: the cultural contributions of ancient Greece and Rome, the religious heritage which permeates European life, the creative impetus of the Renaissance, the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment, the input of rational and scientific thought’.
These words unveil a dwindled and waned spectrum of Greco-Roman Europe, which testifies to the fact that the European politicians and statements did not learn any lesson from the History. These words certainly bear witness to the perception of a need for historical reassessment, but demonstrate that the European political and academic microcosm failed to draw the correct historical conclusion!
With regard to the aforementioned definition, we indicate and enumerate hereby the missing parts of the European puzzle:
1. Europe did not exist without the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians.
Why Europe is limited in the cultural contributions of Greece and Rome only?
The Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, who settled and developed great civilizations in the Aegean Sea, Sicily, Sardinia, and the Iberian coast, are by definition a seminal constituent part of the European History too.
It is well known that the Phoenicians introduced in their colonies a direct democratic, representative political system, and we know very well that the Phoenicians introduced it in Athens.
2. Europe did not exist without the Scythians, the Cimmerians, and the Celts
The Scythians, the Cimmerians, and the Celts are also integral part of the European identity; how could we delete Stonehedge, the dolmens and the menhirs of France, the Kurgans of Russia, and the ethnic and cultural background of the peoples of today’s Northern Europe?
3. Ancient Thracians, Macedonians, and Greeks dwelled on both, European and Asiatic territories.
An idealized and inexistent form of Ancient Greece and Rome cannot serve as model either to modern Europe or to anybody else. What was Ancient Greece? A number of various peoples, namely the Achaians, the Aeolians, the Ionians, and the Dorians, never unified, and always in strife with one another, and with the non Greek Pelasgians.
Although they did not expand in the northern parts of the modern state of Greece, since those territories belonged to the Macedonians and the Thracians, other peoples with different language, the ‘Greeks’, and mainly the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians dwelled on both, European and Asiatic territories.
Through this erratic approach, if we exempt Turkey from any sort of European character, Carian Herodotus, and almost all the Pre-Socratic philosophers, Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, and others have to be considered as paragons of Asiatic culture.
Furthermore, Homer belongs to (the Asiatic territory of) Turkey, so the aforementioned, pathetically Anti-Turkish approach ends up driving Homer out of Europe, in the same way in Iliad, the Achaeans drove the Pelasgians out of Troy!
Either Turkey belongs to Europe or Homer is an ‘Asiatic’ for the counterfeit Europe of these disreputable politicians.
4. Rome’s Origins are Asiatic too!
How are we expected to consider the Trojans as non European when at we encounter them in their original location and home, in NW Turkey, and as Europeans, when we meet them in Rome like Aeneias?
Should we supposed that the most important European epic text, Aeneid, is written about …. ‘Asiatics’? Did Virgil, the greatest European epic poet, have as main inspiration source an Asiatic people irrelevant of Europe?
5. If Modern Europeans want to neglect Turkey, Alexander the Great already disregarded the entire Europe!
Shall we truly consider Alexander II of Macedonia, rejected by the Athenians and Demosthenes in particular, as a ‘European’? To do so, we would have to totally disregard the Great Macedonian emperor’s historical records.
Alexander the Great did not reach the Adriatic coast of Illyria, did not set foot on the Greek islands of the Ionian Sea, and did not go beyond the western borders of Macedonia; contrarily to his lack of interest for Western, Southwestern, Central, Northern and Northeastern Europe, his military expeditions and invasions drove him more than 4000 km away in the East, on rather Asiatic territory!
For the Macedonian Emperor, Egypt (Africa) was more important than the Greek cities – colonies of the Black Sea, around Odessa and the Crimea peninsula. Syria and Judea were more valuable to him than Iberia. More critically, Persia was more precious for Alexander than the entire Italian peninsula.
For Alexander, apparently Amun - Ra was far more sublime than Jupiter and the various Celtic gods.
With regard to politics, Bactria, Sogdiana, Transoxiana, in Central Asia, Arachosia, Gedrosia, Pentapotamia, in today’s Eastern Iran and Pakistan, were the circumferences Alexander the Great wished to unify under his scepter – not the Scandinavian peninsula, the Alps, and the plains of Scythia/Russia.
The border was not in the Azores or the Faeroes, but in the North of India, whereas the epicenter, the capital of Alexander’s vast empire was at Babylon, Mesopotamia! What a blow for … Europe!
As a consequence, Alexander the Great, the embodiment of Military Virtue for Julius Caesar, should be considered as a non-European according to the erratic approaches of today’s European politicians!
6. Alexander’s Empire and Modern Turkey: Euro-Asiatic, bi-continental states
As long discussion has been engaged about proportions of a country’s provinces located on different continents! This is of course an extremely idiotic approach. For those who give it some importance, we underscore the following reality:
If Turkey’s European provinces represent 5% of the entire country’s territory, Alexander’s European territory was less than 3% of the total surface of his vast empire. (In this calculation, we did not total modern states’ territories, but we just estimated the lands invaded by Alexander II).
This case concerns also the Roman Empire; more than half of its territory was located outside Europe: Africa, Numidia, Egypt, Syria Coele, Syria Palestinia, and - of course - most of modern Turkey’s territory! But this is only indicative of a great expansion; it tells us nothing about Culture.
7. Determinant Oriental Impact on the Greco-Roman World
What ignorant politicians like Markus Söder cannot imagine even in their wildest dreams is that on ‘strictly’ European soil, namely Italy, France, Germany, Holland, England, Spain and the Balkans, 20th century archeologists have unearthed many hundreds of sites with overwhelming testimonies of Egyptian, Persian, Anatolian and Phoenician Culture, Religion, Ideology, Cult, and Philosophy.
Hundreds of excavated on European soil temples were dedicated to Mithras, Hormuzd, Areimanios (Ahriman), Artagnes (Verathragna), Isis, Anubis, Osiris, Horus, Baal, Atargatis, Adonis and Cybele – all non European origins gods who were finally worshipped by Europeans.
The foundations of the currently official conception of the Classical Antiquity, and of the Greek and Roman civilizations are both, obsolete and inane.
The Greek philosophers were the humble students of their grandmasters at the temples of Egypt, Babylonia and Persia. Without the great Oriental civilizations, and without the ceaseless work of transferring the Lights of Civilization to the Aegean world, the Greeks would have been a barbaric realm absorbed by the local, mostly superstitious and uneducated, polytheistic and idolatrous priests, whom the Pre-Socratic philosophers opposed virulently.
As many wonder why only a few words have been saved out of the voluminous and copious compositions of the Pre-Socratic philosophers, it would be interesting to clarify that these great intellectuals have been persecuted by local barbaric and murderous polytheistic priests, who – followed by fanaticized mob – had it easy to burn the works of ingenious intellectuals like Thales and Anaximenes.
All the basic concepts initiated within the Greek world by the Pre-Socratic philosophers, Hesiod, Homer, and Plato are of combined – Hittite Anatolian, Phoenician, Egyptian, and Assyrian / Babylonian – Oriental background.
8. The ‘Hellenistic’ period, an era of extensive interactions, should be properly called ‘Orientalist’ period.
The later interaction of Macedonians and Greeks with various other peoples within the empire of Alexander the Great, and throughout the countries of his successors, triggered an extraordinary cultural inundation of the Roman Empire by Oriental cults, philosophies, ideologies, concepts, religions, and cults that changed the face of the ‘Greek’ world.
The procedure was accentuated during the Roman times! Modern scholarship focused already on this, but the conclusions have been mostly kept secret from the average public.
Indicatively I state here that no less than 200 volumes have been published in the monumental and updated series ‘Etudes Preliminaires sur les Religions Orientales dans l’ Empire Romain’ (Preliminary Studies on the Oriental Religions within the Roman Empire) in order to cover the subject – without being however exhaustive.
The first stage of diffusion consisted in the establishment of religious – philosophical – ideological systems of common, Greek and Oriental, background. Serapism, Hermetism, Chaldaism, various Gnosticisms, and Ostanism are quite indicative in this regard.
9. Oriental Culture permeating the Roman Empire
During the next phase, we encounter a plethora of temples of Osiris, Isis, Horus, Anubis (Egyptian gods), a multitude of sanctuaries of Mithra and Anahita (Persian gods), a great number of shrines of Cybele (Anatolian goddess of Sumerian origin), and an abundance of holy places of Adonis, Atargatis, and Astarte (Phoenician god and goddesses, the latter of Babylonian – Sumerian background) throughout the European territory of the Roman Empire.
The two most influential systems, Isidism and Mithraism, expelled the old, local, European gods, and decisively ostracized them far from the hearts and the minds of the Greeks, the Romans, the Celts, and all the other native European peoples.
A good study of the phenomenon needed several dozens of voluminous tomes written collectively by many scholars. Widely venerated, the series ANRW, Aufstieg und Niedergang der Roemischen Welt (Rise and Fall of the Roman World), could convince any uninformed person about the real face of Europe, as well as about the Oriental origins of ‘the cultural achievements of Greece and Rome’. The ideal, archetypal empire for the ‘European’ Roman Empire was Assyria, and this is certainly not Europe!
10. Europe is Orient.
The Oriental cataclysmic impact did cover all aspects of everyday life during the Roman Imperial times. An introductory bibliography should mainly start with the excellent book of the French scholar Paul Faure, a Hellenist, not Orientalist!
In his ‘Parfums et Aromates de l’ Antiquite’ (Fayard, Paris, 1987), the French archeologist draws a magnificent picture of the unprecedented changes that occurred in the Greco-Roman world because of the introduction of Oriental ways of life, and lifestyles, most notably the use of perfumes, spices, incense, as well as of other aromatic fragrances. It is essential to offer some examples of hidden literature in order to break down the silly Markus Söder version of Greco-Roman History.
In the year 287 BCE, King Seleucos of Syria, one of Alexander’s Diadochs (successors), sent to the temple of Apollo at Miletus (so on Turkish territory) 360 kg. of incense, 36 kg. of myrrh, and no less than 1200 kg. of cassia!
Theophrastus (On Plants, ch. 9) depicts similar circumstances. And Nero spent no less than several millions of sestertii for the aromatic needs of a funeral (Tacit, Annals, XVI, 6)!
At the times of Vespasian, an enumeration of aromatic fragrances in Rome would comprise no less than 60 different types (Pliny, Historia Naturalis, XII, 35 – 135).
This lifestyle expanded so much that caused a certain reaction by Plautus (Mostellaria, I, III, 273), who stipulated that Mulier recte olet ubi nihil olet (the woman smells properly, when she does not smell at all).
All this relates to Assarhaddon, to Thutmosis, to Hiram of Tyre, to the Queen of Sheba, to Cambyses, but certainly not to Numa Pomiplius, Epameinondas, and Pericles.
11. The Origin of the Current European Religions is Not European!
Contrarily to what the inconsistent Mr. Markus Söder could possibly imagine, it would be wise not to mention any specific religion in the European Constitution; this would automatically imply another dimension of Oriental influences over Europe. It would thus bring the epicenter of Europe at … Jerusalem, far beyond Turkey!
But to what religious system(s) does the enigmatic notion of ‘the religious heritage which permeates European life’ refer? And to what extent Europe is the false ‘Europe’ of Mr. Markus Söder, if all the existing variants of ‘the religious heritage which permeates European life’ are of Asiatic origin, be they Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and/or Hinduism?
If the existing variants of ‘the religious heritage which permeates European life’ are of Asiatic origin, how could one think that ‘Turkey did not share any part of this heritage’?
Here ends every possibility of elementary historical argumentation, and the political motives become flagrant!
12. Turkey: Modern Heir of Ancient Cultures – Politics, Culture and History
However, behind this prejudiced and dogmatic statement of Giscard’s is hidden a very obnoxious approach to historical interpretation. There are some basic points of Human Cultural Heritage and World History that are known to everyone. However, the ominous Taliban of Afghanistan seemed to disregard them, and so do many European politicians! It is essential therefore to restate them.
All the monuments erected, the artifacts produced, the ideas conceived, the theories elaborated, and the literary works composed in a place are Common Heritage of the Mankind; they belong to all of us.
Every country is bound to best preserve, study and propagate every historical testimony excavated on its territory.
Every government shapes the local culture best, when acting as a depository of the Historical evolution, and establishing the proper cultural link between the Present and the Past.
There cannot be selective tendencies in this regard, since this would lead to an early stage of cultural discrimination. To give an example, the Spanish government must be totally committed to best preserve, study and propagate historical testimonies excavated in Spain, whatever the monuments’ identity and character may be, Phoenician, Roman, Gothic, Islamic, Jewish, Christian.
Historical – Cultural Discrimination as attested in the Bamian disaster in Afghanistan (where the cannibalistic Taliban destroyed colossal statues of Buddha under the pretext of fighting against idols – as they misinterpreted within their version of erroneous Islam) is not acceptable anymore in our global, multicultural world.
It was not acceptable in Afghanistan itself; it cannot be acceptable in Europe.
13. Modern Turkey is a depository and promoter of the Greek Antiquity.
A better observation would have led the opinionated and intolerant European politicians to a deeper understanding. Ever since its inception, modern Turkey has advanced a lot in terms of cultural policies and political rights. Women voted and were elected in Turkey four (4) years before they were allowed to do so in France! More than many other European countries, Turkish Cultural policies followed an all-encompassing model whereby the Hittite Epics Illuyankas and Ullikummi, the Assyrian – Babylonian Enuma Elish (the earliest text about the Creation), Homer, Herodotus, the Annals of the Sargonid Emperors of Assyria, the Urartu inscriptions, the Ionian philosophers, Zoroaster, the Commagene Mithraism, John’s Revelation, the Christian Cappadocian milieu, the Gnosticisms of the Late Antiquity, the Nestorians and the Monophysites of Upper Mesopotamia (Tur Abdin), the Sabians of Sumatar, the Abrahamic tradition of Harran, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Quarel of the Icons, the Manichaeists, the various Muslim and Turkic religious and ethnic groups, all mysticisms from Apollonius of Tyana, to Jelaleddin Rumi, and from Basil of Caesarea to the welcomed Sephardim of Spain - with certainly great focus on the Ottoman Empire - are equally present in a unique multicultural(ist) panorama. Does Mr. Markus Söder know that there is even a Sumerbank in Turkey?
The result of this approach to History and of the implementation of the aforementioned cultural policies makes of modern Turkey the natural depository of the Classical, Greco-Roman world as well. Today, Turkey represents the historical past of the Greek world, and ‘the Greek culture’ to the same extent as Greece does. The Anti-Turkish, racist politicians of Europe should finally come to terms with this reality.
If Pericles was born on territory that belongs to modern Greece, Herodotus was born on modern Turkish soil.
If Plato ‘is’ to Greek, Homer ‘belongs’ to Turkey.
And where does Apollo dwell? In his temple at Delphi (Greece) or in his sanctuary at Sardes (Turkey)? Where can one find more representative monuments of the Ancient Greek world? In Athens (Greece) or in Ephesus (Turkey)?
14. Modern Turkey is a depository and promoter of the Roman Antiquity.
If we come to the Roman World, then the strongest challenge to Italy – as depository of the Roman Culture – is not Greece, neither France or Spain, but Turkey.
Istanbul, still called by Greeks ‘Constantinople’, remains Nova Roma forever. The modern European North that consists in the dynamo of the European economy was the periphery of the Roman world (France, Britain, Germany) or was always out of the Roman borders (Germany, Scandinavia, Scotland, Ireland, Baltic counties).
15. Anti-Turkish Euro-racists criminally try to delete Islamic - Jewish Andalusia from European History.
The viciously biased History of Europe obliterates critical periods of European History in which developments occurred that later contributed greatly to the formation of European Culture.
Going beyond the Antiquity and the Late Antiquity, we have to remark the valuable and multifaceted contribution of Islam to the cultural development of Modern Europe. This can be focalized mainly in two areas and two different periods partly overlapping.
The first is Muslim Andalusia, the great Umayyad times that lasted from the beginning of the 8th century to the end of the 15th century. Without the Knowledge, the Science, the Wisdom, the Philosophical debates, and the Art of the Iberian Islam and Judaism, Europe would be the hidebound misery and pestilence of the Frankish barbarism.
The Iberian peninsula from where Andalusian Civilization enthralled the four corners of the then known world is not a small part of Europe, even for those speaking in quantitative terms. Without incorporating this entire milieu into their, false, ‘Europe’, the Anti-Turkish racists rather hint at an eventual exclusion of Spain or Portugal from the back room of the European decision making.
In brief, we have no reason to believe that the supposed ‘philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment’ is more determinant a factor for the formation of Modern Europe than Iberian Islamic and Jewish Andalusia.
16. No one can deny the genuinely European identity of the Ottoman Empire.
Finally, we come to the second period that has been obliterated by the obnoxious Euro-chauvinists: the Ottoman Europe.
One has to remind to all these uneducated European politicians that only modern Russia and the Roman Empire controlled on European soil so large territory as that ruled by the Ottoman Empire for numerous decades and in most of the cases for some centuries!
If we do not take into account the deplorable episodes ‘Hitler’ and ‘Napoleon’, never did a country, even the Eastern Roman Empire or Alexander the Great, control so vast a portion of European territory as that ruled by some Sultans!
For several centuries, from the gates of Venice and the doors of Vienna to the southern plains of Ukraine, encompassing the entire Balkan peninsula, Crimea and the Transcaucasia, the Ottoman Empire diffused culture and science, philosophy and art, literature and trade throughout an area larger than 1.5 m km2 – all on European soil!
The entire Black Sea was for centuries an Ottoman lake. At the same time it would be useful to remind readers the fact that, while occupying so vast European territory, the Ottoman Caliphate controlled even larger space in Asia and in Africa, bordering with the rest of Europe in the Western Mediterranean.
17. Without the Ottoman Empire, there would not be Modern Europe.
Finally, we have to stress the nature of the Ottoman Empire as the Culture and Civilization channel par excellence. It is very questionable whether Copernicus and Galileo would have ever become known through their researches and conclusions without the Latin translations of the works of top mathematicians and astronomers like Ulugh Beg. As a matter of fact, we do not intend to consider Ulugh Beg, copious author and erudite scholar of Samarqand, as a European intellectual! He was a sheer Asiatic!
But without this great astronomer, and without the unprecedented role played by the Ottoman Empire in bringing the Lights of Civilization to uneducated and obscurantist Europe, there would never be a Renaissance in Europe!
European politicians must realize that modern Turkey – as depository of the Ottoman Cultural Heritage – is the heir of a leading European contributor to the phenomenon of Renaissance and all that this phenomenon ensued. As such Turkey must have indeed a great role in Europe. Whether the Turks will finally decide so is another issue.
Note
Picture: Alexander the Great supervises the work of erecting an invisible wall to protect his people against the nations Gog and Magog at all times; miniature from Islamic manuscript. European Culture encompasses this subject as well.
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Published: 1/15/2008
www.buzzle.com/articles/turkey-and-the-fictitious-europe-of-the-irreverent-german-minister-markus-soder.html